ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,288, issued on April 8, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device" was invented by Sung Chul Hong (Yongin-si, South Korea), Do Yeong Park (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Ki Hyun Pyo (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes: a base layer; a pixel circuit layer on the base layer, the pixel circuit layer including lower lines, the pixel circuit layer having a line-free area in which the lower lines are not present; and a light-emitting-element layer on the pixel circuit layer, the light-emitting-element layer including electrodes and a light emitting element o...